Quotations About Arts III

Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane


Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer


What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ~Willa Cather


Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens


Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard


Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~G.K. Chesterton



A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ~Albert Camus


Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini


I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg



While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon


The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle


Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein


Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri


The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. ~Thomas Carlyle


Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw



Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton


Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin


Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey


Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin